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Heart attack is a serious, sudden heart condition usually characterized by varying degrees of chest pain or discomfort, weakness, sweating, nausea, vomiting, and arrhythmias, sometimes causing loss of consciousness. It occurs when the blood supply to a part of the heart is interrupted, causing death and scarring of the local heart tissue.

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LDF1 03/17/2011

Are you terrified of death?

This was a question that was posed on a little survey in another support group.

What I found interesting was that I don't find myself afraid of death because I know I will die someday. But I do find myself scared to death of another heart attack.

Heart attacks sometimes lead to death so why do I separate it? Just a thought.

What do you think?

deleted_user 04/04/2011

Sue thank you for the poem, I agree it was very good one too~
I can relate to what she felt.

Thank you for sharing it with me.

Ruthie/bee

songsj 04/05/2011

I am too afraid to talk about the fear of death!!

deleted_user 04/05/2011

im kinna with pam on this one, go to refect.. be serene, talk if u have or want too..

deleted_user 04/05/2011

Ok. There is a book which some of us has read which really set this boy on his ear. Now please understand, I am not one to be easily sold a philosophy let alone buy into someone else's imagined forward thinking. However this book was merely an obvious look at our lives today and what we can expect to learn when we pass. It breaks the ponderence down to a basic premise," What we do here on earth, in life, is part of an amazing order of things that is beyond logic and fact".

Having faith that your life has purpose, takes away the regrets and resentments of the shoulda coulda woulda's. So saying that, Ponder this" Everything we have done all throughout our lives has taken us to where we are today". So then we can ask are we satisfied. Wow. What a deep question that is. "Are we Satisfied"

That's when, Just Joe really self examined his meaning of satisfied. Materially, spiritually, sexually, professionally, intellectually, physically?

So in asking this question, I found ego, pride, self indulgence, self image and popular opinion were quanitatively a majority stock holder in who Just Joe was. I have been able to shake that understanding of "What sartisfaction is."

I won't go any further becuase it will give the book away. But I will say it's meaning has shaped this man from the day he read it which allowed my life to have new meaning and to not fear death but to accept it as a wonderful transformation form a meaningful life into a glorious new beginning as another integral part of God's Creation.

The best reward to date is that I now have an opportunity to share myself with a beautiful woman and the best friends in the whole world.

The Book:

"The Five People you meet in Heaven"

Author Mitch Albom.

This writing has been integral in my growth these past several months.

Great topic Louie and great introspective comments. Thanks Friend.

Just joe

deleted_user 04/10/2011

Hello Everyone,

Joe, I agree. I was also touched by the book "The Five People You Meet in Heaven". It was a great book.

Sue, thank you for sharing the poem. My feelings run along the same lines as the poem.

There are a lot of insightful comments that everyone has shared. Thank you all for contributing.

Namaste,
Minor4th

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